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I currently have a Mac OS X host, running a Windows Vista Home Premium guest.

Downloaded the latest version of VirtualBox along with the Guest Additions.
Everything works fantastic and very smoothly as well.

My only issue is that whenever I start StarCraft (the first one, installed it and everything with no problem), once it hits the main menu, the cursor (changes to the cursor in game) it gets extremely laggy, and unplayable..and thus have to exit out. (the sole reason i downloaded VirtualBox is to mainly game, and StarCraft 1 was one of my main games)

Does anyone have a resolution to this? Does it have to do with Video Cards?

If anyone can be of assistance, that'd be great!

Looking forward to your replies.

Cheers.

Added info: I had my old PC with the same version Vista, (infact I used the same activation key due to the the PC falling to pieces) now im using that same one, on VirtualBox.

VirtualBox does not make a good gaming platform. AFAIK, no VM does.

I saw a thread which contained over 10 pages worth of posts of individuals using VirtualBox as a gaming platform. I know it won't be able to run extensive and new games, but Starcraft is a game which is over 10 years old. It hardly needs any high components to run. And with that, I'm still having the issue of why it's incredibly laggy/slow while starting/during the game.

Thanks!

If guest additions are installed properly (with 3D in safe mode for xp guests) and the hosts vga driver is the newest, then there is nothing else you can do.

It may work or not. If not, then not.

disable 2d acceleration and try again

this game doesn't use 3d acceleration and given you're on a mac, im going to assume intel graphics are in use.